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Definition of “North Borneo”

North Borneo

Definitions

noun

  1. the former name (until 1963) of Sabah

Example Sentences Including 'North Borneo'

Bizarrely, Sabah once belonged to an Englishman, the publisher Alfred Dent, who leased it and eventually called it British North Borneo.
Independent (1998)
protested and put forward their own claims to North Borneo.
Grenville, J. A. S. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century

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